Old Videos to DVD...?

[TonyHetherington]

Morning all

A question for you videographer types.

As any other family does, I'm sure, we have many hours of VHS tape with my bro and I as kids, family movies that sort of thing. What's the easiest solution to getting them to DVD to store for many years to come?

Both Dad and I have DVD writers in our computers with suitable amounts of memory and hard drive space, so what would the way be? Is there a specific program and/or cable that you plug a VCR in or is there another route?

Thanks all!

[philbes]

TonyHetherington said:

Morning all

A question for you videographer types.

As any other family does, I'm sure, we have many hours of VHS tape with my bro and I as kids, family movies that sort of thing. What's the easiest solution to getting them to DVD to store for many years to come?

Both Dad and I have DVD writers in our computers with suitable amounts of memory and hard drive space, so what would the way be? Is there a specific program and/or cable that you plug a VCR in or is there another route?

Thanks all!

I have done this two ways.

1. Directly connected my video recorder to my Pioneer DVD recorder with hard disk. Recorded to hard disk and then to DVD, but could have gone directly to DVD. Going via the hard disk allowed me to easily choose which bits of the videos to re-record to DVD.

2. Connected my video recorder to a special PCI card (borrowed) in my computer. A program came with the card - sorry, can't remember which card it was (it was over a year ago).

The first method gave far better results and did not require expenditure on additional components.